Russ Allbery:
> Niels Thykier <ni...@thykier.net> writes:
>
>> The maintainer reports (notably the "full" reports) quickly grows in
>> size (disk space used) and without any bounds. At the moment, the
>> lintian.d.o has a complete size usage of ~1GB - half of that is "full
>> reports" - the second runner up is the uncompressed lintian.log (at
>> 250MB), which will disappear soon.
>
> I use my maintainer full report all the time.
>

What particular part do you use or like about it? From my PoV, it looks
like it has too much information on it - even with out the
classification tags.
I think my issue is that I am missing some level of aggregation from
where I can choose to "drill down" into a more detailed layer (easier
said than done on a static website).
As an example, you literally have a screen full of line numbers from a
pedantic tag:
* https://lintian.debian.org/full/r...@debian.org.html#krb5
This is where I wish our maintainer/full reports where different. Maybe
something like:
"""
This is the lintian report for Russ Allbery, who maintains 20 packages.
Possible issues found by lintian:
E: 10 (of which 3 are certain)
W: 3
Style suggestions / nits:
I: 12
P: 255 (of which 120 of these are file-contains-trailing-whitespace in
krb5)
Other issues:
O: 7
X: 12
C: 33
Overrides:
* Number of overridden tags: 7 (in 3 different packages)
* Number of unused overrides: 2 (in 1 package)
* Number of malformed overrides: 0
Table by package:
| E | W | I | P | Links
---------------+-----+-----+-----+----+---------------
debian-policy | 0 | 1 | 3 | 20 | <links here>
---------------+-----+-----+-----+----+---------------
gnubg | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | <links here>
---------------+-----+-----+-----+----+---------------
[... 18 more entries for each remaining package ...]
"""
(Numbers more or less pulled out of my hat; some parts probably needs a
little more prose etc.)
This obviously makes more sense if we have a "per package" report, so
you can drill into a package and see what the tags are.
> I think a lot of the explosion has been the inclusion of the purely
> informational tags in the maintainer reports, which I think are fairly
> useless and add a ton of space because even entirely Lintian-clean
> packages have several of them. Maybe just suppress those from the
> maintainer report and see what things look like then?
>
Am doing it now.
Thanks,
~Niels